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Articles about Practice

The Feminine and the Masculine in Contemplative Practice

Supporting Your Practice: Some tips for sustainable and rewarding contemplative work

What do I feel? What do I need? What can I do?

Navigating the Window of Tolerance: Titration During Emotional Adventures

Sitting in our Window of Tolerance

Midwifing Our Emotions: Thawing a Freeze Response with Somatic Self-Compassion

Mindfulness at the Gym

Crying Meditation

Finding Our Compassionate Meditation Posture

Practicing Self-Compassion: You already do it!

Ritual and Self-Compassion Practice

Ritual As Self-Compassion Practice

Anchoring Our Awareness: Alternatives to the breath

Adverse Meditation Effects, the Dalai Lama, and the Noble Eightfold Path

Am I Motivated from Love or Fear?

Addressing Anxiety with Somatic Self-Compassion practices

The Young Frog and the Trauma Process

Mindfulness is the Mother of Equanimity; Self-Compassion is the Midwife.

To My Body in Pain…

The Only Friend We Can Ever Rely On

Emergent Stretch as a Self-Compassion Practice

Two Approaches to Working with Shame

Choose Your Own Self-Compassion Practice Adventure

Body, Meet You; You, Meet Your Body

Open Awareness Meditation and Self-Compassion

The Gift of Fearlessness through Stillness and Somatic Self-Compassion

Somatic Call and Response: Move it and you can soothe it

Somatic Awareness Journaling: A simple daily practice to reconnect with your body

Skillfully Releasing Pent-Up Energy Through Emergent Somatic Expression

The Feminine and the Masculine in Mindful Self-Compassion

Equanimity: Boring or Embracing?

Should You Go On Silent Retreat?

Practice as a Life Raft in a Sea of Emotions

Coming Home to Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

The Neurochemistry Behind Our Meditation Practice

HeartWorks Step-by-Step Approach to Support, Study and Practice

Practicing Giving Ourselves What We Need

Word Meditation

How On Earth Do I Meditate? Part 2: Open Awareness

There Is Only Love and Fear: Workplace learnings from Leunig

How On Earth Do I Meditate? Part 1: Anchoring awareness

Setting Up Your Meditation Space: A place to come home to

Easefully Scheduling Meditation: Making sure it happens!

Supporting Your Practice Through Keeping a Meditation Journal

What do I need and how can I give it to myself? A women’s self-compassion retreat.

Estrogen, mindfulness, shame and not abandoning myself

The Default Mode Network gets a bad wrap

An Unashamed Confession: Forgetting to be mindful

The Unpolished Self

Cold and Teary, Well-fed and Connected at Vallecitos Mountain Ranch: A felt sense of common humanity

Opening and Closing: The law of emotional expansion and contraction

Mindfulness Doesn’t Need to Be Difficult: Sky gazing meditation

Soften, Soothe, Allow…

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Permission To Not Sleep

Meeting Unmet Needs: The Courage to Self-Soothe

struggle with mindfulness

The Struggle with Mindfulness

Leanne Faulkner's lake, mindful walking

Walking Into Me

upcoming Events

  1. Self-Paced MSC Workbook Online Companion

    December 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
  2. Online Teaching Basics Self-Study

    December 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
  3. Free Online Self-Paced Practice Support Mini-Course

    January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
  4. Somatic Self-Compassion Self-Study Workshops

    January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
  5. Somatic Self-Compassion Self-Paced

    January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
  6. Somatic Self-Compassion Weekly Practice Cycle

    January 1 - December 31
  7. Finding Your Practice Path online: The neurochemistry of contemplative practice (dates to be advised)

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    May 1 - December 31
  9. Live Online MSC (dates to be advised)

    May 20 @ 12:00 am - July 29 @ 12:00 am
  10. Embodied Trauma-Informed Contemplative Teaching Online (dates to be advised)

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